AUTUMN is so darn pretty. It’s also a great time to repair some of that drinking/partying/wearing bad shoes/chewing your nails damage summer brings.

But we don’t all have a Kim Kardashian budget (or personal butt stylist), so here are some budget beauty finds that will leave you glowing.

HAIR

BEFORE your hairdresser became the Art Director Of Hair Architecture And Artistry he/she was sweeping floors and cutting dolls hair. Just like these guys.

Clip Joint have a bunch of graduate students that cut human hair exactly how you want it.

Don’t worry, they’re not all fumble-scissor thumbs; these guys have finished their training. Their ladies’ cut and blow-dry is $18. It’s not a misprint: RUN

Clip Joint Hairdressers, 86 Gawler Place, 8223 2400

FACIALS

The Heather Langton Academy of Beauty Therapy have Wednesday clinics where students hone their skills. Body wraps, hot rocks, and one hour facials that start at $35. That’s cleansing, exfoliation, vaporzone for hydration, serum for an anti-ageing facial and finish with a paraffin face mask and a hand massage. They have specials too, like $25 facials for their Biggest Morning Tea fundraiser. Better for you than a cupcake.

Heather Langton Academy of Beauty Therapy, 181 Gilles St, 8223 6522

WAXING/NAILS

DOES TAFE stand for Totally Awesome Fee Evader? It should.

Its client salon prices look like they’d belong on an old yellowing brochure you found in an op-shop purse. A main and pedi for $15.

Shellac and Acrylics are both $10.

The $10 leg wax is a bargain but it was the $10 XXX wax that brought a tear to my eye. The TAFE students work from their on-site beauty salon and are all overseen by lecturers, which means your various bits are too.

TAFE SA Hair and Beauty, 8207 8412

EYEBROW THREADING

SUCH a small strip of hair, such a big effect. An overzealous plucking can turn you from fresh faced girl-next-door to a surprised gothic tadpole.

Best leave it to the experts. Rahul Tandon is the eyebrow king of the west end.

After 10 years in Melbourne he’s set up shop in Adelaide with ridiculous prices. At just $5, he’ll have you raising your hairy brows in shock.

College Cutters, 47-49 Waymouth St, 8123 4512

LASER HAIR REMOVAL

When this first came out it was like the first Discmans: a strange technological advance for only the very rich.

Now, it’s the iPod of the hair removal world; affordable with a fanatic cult following.

If you missed the last scoop on voucher, Hairfree in Rundle Mall are doing a free first session and then a Brazilian and Under Arms combo for $59 (usually $168).

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